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Faculty Development: Mentoring & Peer Review

Resources to support faculty in their development as community college educators, information about peer review and portfolios, resources from the library for online learning, curriculum development, outcomes assessment and much more.

Faculty Mentoring

The purpose of faculty mentoring is to foster cooperation leading to excellence of all newly hired full-time faculty members at Johnson County Community College.

Through collaboration, mentors provide instructional, collegial, professional, and even social support.

The mentoring process provides benefits to the newly hired faculty members by giving them insight into the JCCC culture. It also provides benefits to the mentor by, perhaps, giving him/her a more recent connection to new practices.

This is a one-year program that begins immediately after confirmation of employment.

JCCC employees may access detailed information about faculty mentoring at the Staff and Organizational Development site in InfoShare. When prompted to log in, enter your full JCCC employee email address and network/email password.

Peer Review

The purpose of peer review is to foster cooperation leading to excellence of the faculty at Johnson County Community College (JCCC). In addition, it gives experienced faculty members a voice in faculty employment decisions. Through collaboration, peer reviewers provide instructional, collegial and professional support. The peer review process benefits both the people being reviewed and the reviewers. These benefits offer the faculty the opportunity for growth and success in the college and community.

Peer review goals are:

  • to make use of all available resources to enhance teaching.
  • to further improve evaluation and achieve higher levels of reliability.
  • to employ faculty expertise in reaching the highest academic and professional standards.
  • to increase collegiality, mutual professional responsibility and shared decision making.
  • to make the best possible employment decisions.

Resources include the Faculty Peer Review Handbook (PDF), Peer Review forms, procedures and panels for peer review. When prompted, enter your full JCCC employee email address and network/email password.